The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
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